Liquor initiative fizzles in eastern Kerr County

By Zeke MacCormack :
June 30, 2014

KERRVILLE — Proponents of legalizing wine and liquor sales in the Center Point area couldn't garner enough support to spark a vote on it in November.

“We'll pursue the same thing again in two years,” said Tom Moser, Kerr County Precinct 2 commissioner, who led the petition drive in which 868 valid signatures were gathered by Thursday, the deadline to put a referendum on the fall ballot, but nearly 1,000 fewer than needed.

Repealing the ban enacted more than 70 years ago could provide an economic boost by allowing more than just beer sales there, Moser said, but his constituents “didn't have a lot of interest” in it.

It was merely the latest of about five failed petition drives on the issue, said Diane Bolin, Kerr County's tax assessor-collector and voter registrar. “They can't try to do it again for two years.”